Day 1

The Hunger Games Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

Choosing Tributes

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Examine the system by which tributes are chosen for the Hunger Games.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7

Structure:

(35 minutes.)

As Katniss correctly observes, the poor are much more likely to be selected at random that the well-off, because poorer children often exchange additional entries for the necessary resources to feed themselves or their family. Discuss this system. You may ask your students the following questions:

- Is the tribute-selection process "fair"? Why or why not?

- Why are poor people more likely to be selected as tributes? Do you think the Capitol...

Katniss is angry at the girl who starts the fire because she almost kills them both by attracting the Career Tributes. Luckily, they weren't together, because the tributes soon came along and killed the girl, as Katniss expected.